OH! WHAT A NURSE + short
With Lucy Porter
OH! WHAT A NURSE + short
With Lucy Porter
Thursday 13 February
Watershed
11:45
12A
Dir: Charles Reisner, 1926, USA, 70 mins / Romeo Busetti, France, 1911
5.00 -
11.00
Stand-up star Lucy Porter introduces two films linked by their takes on marriage. The short, LE TORCHON BRULE (Romeo Busetti, France, 1911, 5 mins) is by far the oldest and shortest in this year’s programme, starring Sarah Duhamel as one half of a couple engaged in all-out war.
The main feature is OH! WHAT A NURSE! (Charles Reisner, USA, 1926, 70 mins) in which Charlie Chaplin’s brother Syd seeks, via the newspaper “agony aunt” column he’s nursing, to prevent a young heiress (Patsy Ruth Miller) from marrying her uncle’s dubious choice of suitor, with madcap results. Includes a bit part for future double Oscar winner Janet Gaynor. With live piano accompaniment by Daan vandenHurk
115 mins